by Admin | Aug 30, 2019 | Information
You know how cats and dogs can get parasites like roundworms? Well, their larger kin can, too. And just recently a team of Argentinian scientists from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research discovered that roundworms go back at least as far as big...
by Admin | Aug 23, 2019 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
New research from Montana State University shows that with wildfires in the west becoming inevitable, communities that rethink what it means to live with them rather than simply rebuilding will fare better in the long run. The paper, recently published in the journal...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Green Energy, Sustainability
Over the past 40 years, advances in adapting wind energy technology and improvements in predicting wind conditions have created significant growth in the use of wind turbines for electricity. A new report published in Applied Physics Reviews takes stock of where the...
by Admin | Aug 5, 2019 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
While medieval Europe was recovering quite well from a long period of excessive cold and rain, things were a little different in the land that would one day become the Southwestern United States. Between the 9th and 15th centuries, about a dozen megadroughts—that is,...